Young woman assaults 80-year-old Sikh man in UK, spits on his face after kicking him to the ground

An 80-year-old Sikh man was brutally beaten up by a young woman in Coventry, UK.

The man was reportedly making his way along a city centre street when the woman set on him. The unidentified thug spat in his face and left him sprawled on the pavement.

In the sickening and apparently unprovoked melee, the man's turban came off. The attack was filmed by a passerby on his cellphone and shared on social networking site Facebook.

The police are looking for the attacker and are treating it as a malicious and punishable attack which can get the woman up to five years in prison.

The video shows the woman repeatedly punching the elderly man while being surrounded by three of her cronies. The only person who helped the old man by picking up his turban approached even as the thugs walked away.

The police say that the man has been left with a bloodied nose and a black eye.